Many thanks for the credential
received.[1] Please, if
you don’t mind, send me immediately the same in French
or in German, with a stamp on it, etc., in due form, and
particularly with an addition in the text of the credential
to the effect that not only has your party always been (and
is) affiliated to the International Socialist Bureau (but has
a delegate on it with a consultative vote). This is very urgent.

P.S. If you have received from us a manuscript draft
of a brief declaration in
Russian,[2] please pass it on to
Litvinov as soon as you can, with a request to translate it into
English and send it to me as soon as possible. Please send
me a reply by postcard, so that I should know you have
received this letter.

Notes

[1]A reference to the credential from the Lettish Social-Democratic
Party for the Zimmerwald Socialist Conference. J. A. Berzin
had not apparently intended to attend the conference at first
and had handed the credential to Lenin.

[2]A reference to “The Draft Resolution Proposed by the Left Wing
at Zimmerwald”.